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The best games of all time... from 1980

The games industry was just beginning at the dawn of the '80s, with home computing era still a couple of years off, it was the coin-op titles which kicked things off at the start of the decade. But which games were at the top of the pile?

The 1980s were when video games broke out of the fairground, rammed down front doors and invaded homes everywhere. But at the start of the decade home computers were still rare, so it was in the coin-op titles where all the excitement was to be found.

There were however a few developed for the mainframes found in most universities and large businesses. Some even found global acclaim.

Join V3 on this stroll through the archives as we remember the best games of the '80s, starting at the very beginning, in 1980.

Released originally as an arcade game in November, Space Panic is notable for being revered as the first ever platform game. The game's aim is to progress through the levels, digging holes in the platforms then knocking aliens in to kill them.

The game wasn't wildly successful, a fact which its publisher put down to its novelty - it wasn't just the first platform game, it was also the first ‘trap ‘em up', where the bad guys couldn't just be shot. Apparently this was all a bit much for audiences in 1980. What on Earth would they have made of Mass Effect: Andromeda is anyone's guess.

In 1983 CBS Electronics ported Space Panic onto the largely forgotten Coleco Vision home console - a machine which largely owed its sales success to the fact that it came bundled with the original Donkey Kong, itself often and incorrectly hailed as the first-ever platformer.